Screenshot thread

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

Wuts dat?

Looks mid-old.

Hired Guns sequel. Was cancelled back in 2000, but the beta got leaked years later (2006-2007, if I remember right).
Level design is quite sketchy and friendly AI tends to get stuck in the corners, but if you manage to find a way to play it in coop, you will probably have fun.

Edit: You can get it here: http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=992

Holy crap on a cracker.

Why so emotional?

 

[Crooked Bee]

xD

 

[Ulminati]

It's like a whole new game wrapping around your other games...






I'm halfway tempted to take a screenshot of me uploading a picture of me using photoshop to crop a screenshot of me using premiere to cut a movie of me playing a game... It's like fucking fractal attentionwhoring.

 

[felipepepe]

 

[mck]

 

[Jack]

 

[Psquit]

AAAAAGH!

Geee, get a life! lol

Buy me a decent grave with my 10k of golds... fucking jew gnomes.

 

[Berekän]

Just some spiders, we already dealt with those with no casualties before.

What the hell, the webbed my hero this time!

Fuck, I suck.

 

[felipepepe]

I find so weird that the tutorial recoments the Warrior as starting hero, he sucks so badly at start...

 

[Cowboy Moment]

Did they nerf Web in Masters of the Broken World, or can a Wizard and three Barbarians still kill tier 2 groups?

 

[Berekän]

I find so weird that the tutorial recoments the Warrior as starting hero, he sucks so badly at start...

Does he? I've played with the Warrior, the Wizard and the Commander and from those three, the suckiest to start was by far the commander. The wizard's great, but if you face bowmen too early you can get your hero killed easily, I think the warrior works better at the start just because you can tank a lot with him and dish out a nice amount of damage to boot.

 

[felipepepe]

IMHO Ranger is very good at start, hop him on a hill and you can shoot most of the map, and one-shot many annoying creatures.

 

[felipepepe]

I have no idea why this game is so fun, but it certainly is.

This guys always crack me up.

 

[Berekän]

Heh, last time he comes to check in I was telling myself, allright, I'll let this guy get through the next time, then suddenly the beta ends

 

[felipepepe]

Yeah, I was being a douche and hoarding money to see what happens if your family dies, but it ended before that...

 

[Ulminati]

 

[zwanzig_zwoelf]

This looks kinda cool... ehh... for a beta.

 

[Yaar Podshipnik]

'Papers, please' screenshots

I plan on doing an LP of this game once it's out.

 

[Turjan]

Building spawn in this game is still a bit haphazard. At least it keeps the "Cims" (yes, really ) in shape. Bringing the garbage out is quite an exercise, reaching the road looks akin to mountaineering. Yet the Cims just jump.

Solving traffic problems can yield awesome road and track spaghetti.

I'm not sure I would trust those breaks.

 

[RK47]

Stop 56
Passengers are unhappy!

 

[Zewp]

Is that that game where the solution to everything is 'build more trains?'

 

[Turjan]

Stop 56
Passengers are unhappy!

They are always unhappy. By now, I take it as a sign that the stop gets used . The simulation could use some polish.

Is that that game where the solution to everything is 'build more trains?'

Short answer: Yes, similar to most Simcities. However, as you can now build dozens of different road types, you also have the solution: build more roads, add bus lanes, etc. I spent most of the game building roads and see what kind of city grows around them. There are more road tools than anything else. The stuff you see on the screenshots did not exist at game start, including buildings and roads.

 

[Zewp]

I think I'll give it a try sometime. I was put off in the past because people told me the game is a little lacklustre, but it seems to have come a long way.

 

[Turjan]

I think I'll give it a try sometime. I was put off in the past because people told me the game is a little lacklustre, but it seems to have come a long way.

It still has its warts, but I'm a bit more lenient towards games with a $20 price tag. If you look closely at the screenshots, you will see that I play in Sandbox mode with unlimited money. That's not because I don't know how to run a positive cash flow:

And my ticket prices are okay:

It's just that, at the glacial speed of the simulation, I would probably have to wait for weeks for the cash that is necessary to build all those motorways, overpasses, tunnels you see in the screenshots to accumulate. That may mean days in real time. Not my idea of fun.

This is the tutorial map, by the way. I haven't played the campaign yet, and I haven't touched the map maker yet, but I enjoy the city building part. The direct city center pre-existed, the approach was my doing (and fixing, and fixing again), and I still have lots of areas to build, as you can see in the mini-map.

Edit: As this is the screenshot thread, here a shot from the start:

You can also build your own cities in the mapmaker, or you just grow your city center in the game itself.

 

[Hellraiser]

The glorious democratic socialist utopia of norway faces yet another crisis, the vile decadent dutch sodomites attack its holdings in East Asia. Unluckily for the dutch they are as strategically inept as they are morally depraved. Which means they keep attacking the same mountain fortress with 3 divisions of artillery well entrenched. After losing thousands of men to the harsh mountains and seeing Amsterdam blockaded by the Republican Navy of Norway they are forced to concede. Yet they still try doing that 2 or 3 times this time facing tougher and tougher defenses as the Norwegians master the art of entrenchment.

Like every country with imperial (but democratic!) ambitions Norway's population is over 60% African savage.

As mentioned the dutch are relentless in declaring petty wars no more over territory but for such inane reasons like humiliating or cutting down Norway. Their ships sink to the depths of the sea just like the morals of their society sank to the depths of depravity. And to think they called them once a great power!

Indeed the scholars of Norway uncovered much about colonizing the harsh climate of Africa. Soon the free poeple of Norway found themselves possessing the second largest African colonies after the united kingdom which along with the other African colonial power of France remains friendly towards Norway.

However some remain envious of Norway's holdings. The pope himself declared war on Norway and attacked from his colonial holdings. Unluckily for the papists the protestant people of Norway have developed combat gas and mastered the trenches.

The greatest disaster struck from within. The retarded conservatives came into power, with their idiotic notions of laissez faire and free trade they managed to severely damage the industry (fuck buying steamers from the market, dumb cunts sabotaging the navy) and their anti-tariff beliefs resulted in a high flat tax greatly impoverishing the average citizen because the bureaucracy, education system and military had to be financed from something.

Honestly whats so wrong about making a killing of those ridiculous iron and exotic good exports using tariffs like the country did for 50 years? Better to tax the shit out of everyone apparently to maintain the colonies and military they like so much, bloody conservatards in my vicky....

At least Norway is winning medals at the olympics and annexed ethiopia.